Coding is not the new literacy:

That is, it’s not enough to write a loop in Ruby, a class in Java, or use a channel in Go. You’ve got to learn way more “material” than that: how to run your code in an application server, how to store rows in a database, how to deploy all your code to another machine. And then: how to have good taste, how to correct oversight, how to avoid bugs! And then, worst of all: knowing all the little miniutae like platform bugs, slow code paths, unstable code, dependency hell.

We shouldn’t put that upon people just because that’s how most programmers interact with computers. We should keep looking to help folks leverage systems as part of their work, not learn how to build systems to leverage systems to do their work.

Hence, the ending:

We’ve succeeded in magnifying our voices with computers. I like forward to standing back and looking with wonder at how much we’ve magnified our minds.